Cooking Shows, Pinterest Making Us Fat
It might be time to turn off the Food Network: A new study in Appetite suggests TV cooking shows actually make viewers fat. Cornell University researchers surveyed 501 random women between 20 and 35...
View ArticleIBM's Supercomputer Chef Releases a Cookbook
IBM's Watson supercomputer has been dabbling in the world of cooking for a while now; last year, for instance, it offered up its own barbecue sauce , which was reportedly a hit. Soon, you'll be able to...
View ArticleChimpanzees Want to Cook Their Food
Chimps: the frustrated chefs of the animal kingdom? Humans are the only creatures to cook their food, but our closest relatives have the mental ability to cook and are more than happy to do so when...
View ArticleThis Cooking Method Helps Rid Rice of Arsenic
High levels of arsenic in rice shouldn't scare you away, scientists say, because they've found a way to flush most of the toxin, the journal Nature notes. Researchers for the study in Plos One acquired...
View ArticleThe 'Anti-Guy Fieri' Leaves America's Test Kitchen
In what Salon describes as "a move that sent shockwaves through the PBS-subscribing, why-yes-I-do-have-strong-feelings-about-pineapple-in-carrot-cake cognoscenti," Chris Kimball, the celebrity chef who...
View ArticleFinally, Garlic That Doesn't Destroy Your Breath
A construction engineer and a lawyer who've been friends since they were teens were seeking a diversion from their 9-to-5 toil, so they teamed up to revive a Tuscany staple that hasn't been prevalent...
View ArticleVegan Wonder Ingredient: Liquid We Dumped Down Drain
When newly vegan Indiana software engineer Goose Wohlt heard his wife talk last year about a video of two French women whipping up a chocolate mousse using the liquid typically tossed from a can of...
View ArticleYou Can Now Cook in Julia Child's Kitchen
If you inhale deeply enough, perhaps you'll still smell her beef bourguignon. The French cottage that Julia Child built with funds from the second volume of Mastering the Art of French Cooking is up...
View ArticleJamie Oliver Put Sausage in Paella, Spain Freaked Out
Jamie Oliver has managed to "offend a whole nation," Stuff.co.nz reports—and he did it with pork sausage. The celebrity chef posted on Twitter what the Telegraph calls an "unorthodox" recipe for paella...
View ArticleUS Chefs Take Gold in Culinary 'Olympics'
Team USA won big at the annual culinary Olympics in France, capturing the gold medal—the coveted Bocuse d'Or —for the first time. The American chefs wowed the judges with their take on a Lyonnaise...
View ArticleNew Millennial Trend: Adulting Classes
Know how to fold sheets? Change a tire? Cook dinner? Balance your budget? What sound like basic life skills to some may actually be novelties to others, who for whatever reason didn't learn certain...
View ArticleChimpanzees Want to Cook Their Food
Chimps: the frustrated chefs of the animal kingdom? Humans are the only creatures to cook their food, but our closest relatives have the mental ability to cook and are more than happy to do so when...
View ArticleThis Cooking Method Helps Rid Rice of Arsenic
High levels of arsenic in rice shouldn't scare you away, scientists say, because they've found a way to flush most of the toxin, the journal Nature notes. Researchers for the study in Plos One acquired...
View ArticleThe 'Anti-Guy Fieri' Leaves America's Test Kitchen
In what Salon describes as "a move that sent shockwaves through the PBS-subscribing, why-yes-I-do-have-strong-feelings-about-pineapple-in-carrot-cake cognoscenti," Chris Kimball, the celebrity chef who...
View ArticleFinally, Garlic That Doesn't Destroy Your Breath
A construction engineer and a lawyer who've been friends since they were teens were seeking a diversion from their 9-to-5 toil, so they teamed up to revive a Tuscany staple that hasn't been prevalent...
View ArticleVegan Wonder Ingredient: Liquid We Dumped Down Drain
When newly vegan Indiana software engineer Goose Wohlt heard his wife talk last year about a video of two French women whipping up a chocolate mousse using the liquid typically tossed from a can of...
View ArticleYou Can Now Cook in Julia Child's Kitchen
If you inhale deeply enough, perhaps you'll still smell her beef bourguignon. The French cottage that Julia Child built with funds from the second volume of Mastering the Art of French Cooking is up...
View ArticleJamie Oliver Put Sausage in Paella, Spain Freaked Out
Jamie Oliver has managed to "offend a whole nation," Stuff.co.nz reports—and he did it with pork sausage. The celebrity chef posted on Twitter what the Telegraph calls an "unorthodox" recipe for paella...
View ArticleUS Chefs Take Gold in Culinary 'Olympics'
Team USA won big at the annual culinary Olympics in France, capturing the gold medal—the coveted Bocuse d'Or —for the first time. The American chefs wowed the judges with their take on a Lyonnaise...
View ArticleNew Millennial Trend: Adulting Classes
Know how to fold sheets? Change a tire? Cook dinner? Balance your budget? What sound like basic life skills to some may actually be novelties to others, who for whatever reason didn't learn certain...
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